It has been a while since I said anything about this company. But now I am. Has anyone been following kayak (www.kayak.com). I have been pretty impressed with their service since about 2 years now. Kayak helps me get the best deals without having to pay an additional service fee (like Orbitz or Travelocity) and even better, no additional cancellation fees (that $30 that is charged by Orbitz). Kayak apparently directly pings the SABRE database for flights and shows you the price. The cool features I like about it is the fare history, interface to change the search criteria, the host of options with Flights/Hotels/Cars/Cruises/Deals etc. I understand they are pretty strongly funded, stable and have the best and the brightest in the travel industry on their board. So this is the next pit stop for our G-force! Yes, the algorithm is the core competency and they need to leverage it whenever/wherever they can. By now, it is obvious that I am talking about the forces of Google!
Simple, buy Kayak->have a single sign on through G-mail -> enable payment through Google Checkout -> allow searches through past purchases -> add some artificial intelligence to make suggestions for the next vacation trip, show deals, personal search (leverage iGoogle) -> enable posting pics through phone directly to picasa online web albums, the possibilities are endless
Viele Grusse!
2 comments:
Yeah u r rite Ammu, Kayak helps to get gud deals, n even the Sidestep.com works gud.
Think Kayak and Sidestep works together...
Good post.
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